Wollstonecraft's Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period

ISBN-13: 9780367890179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Andrew McInnes

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Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in t

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: I’m Not a Female Philosopher, But…

Chapter 1. Imagining Mary: Representations of Wollstonecraft in the Works of Mary Hays and William Godwin

Chapter 2. The Death of the Feminist in Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray, Elizabeth Hamilton’s Modern Philosophers and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda

Chapter 3. England in Eighteen Hundred and Fourteen: The State of the Nation in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Chapter 4. Hideous Progeny: The Female Philosopher in Gothic, Historical and Silver Fork Fiction

Afterword: The Afterlives of the Female Philosopher

Bibliography

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Andrew McInnes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.